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$ES Daily Plan | May 27 Today’s session produced conflicting market-generated information, with an early failed breakout followed by a lack of stronger sellers to capitalize on the failure. The auction remains stuck between the prior ATH at 7540 and last week’s high, leaving it in a bit of no man’s land. Keep it simple: value building above 7540 would be a bullish development, keeping the broader context unchanged and targeting the holiday ATH at 7569.75, carried forward as unfinished business. Value building below 7519 would end the daily structure of higher highs and higher lows, opening the door to build on today’s failed 2-week balance breakout. Smashlevel: 7519

@Tmxpy A little rushed but just wanted to highlight the technical and news picture . Combined a couple of important narratives, holiday trading and a classic island day.

@Trading_Balance Nice input thanks! Hope youre well mate!

26th May 2026- Island Day Post Memorial Holiday Market Narrative — (May 26, 2026) #ES_F #marketprofile #volumeprofile 🟦 1. Context Going Into Today All‑time highs into the long weekend, driven by optimism that a US–Iran deal was close. Monday was an island day: gap‑up open, no gap fill, no extension beyond IB — classic “fragile optimism” structure. Late Monday: US limited strikes on Iran, contradicting earlier diplomatic optimism and threatening the six‑day ceasefire. This set up a binary, news‑sensitive open for today’s post‑holiday session. 🟧 2. Overnight Session: Gap Tested but Defended Rebuttal of the peace‑deal narrative triggered a sell‑off into the prior gap zone. Overnight low: 7525.25, stopping one tick above Friday’s gap at 7524. Key read: buyers defended the gap — strong signal that the island structure remained intact. This preservation of the gap was the first major tell that buyers were still in control despite geopolitical noise. 🟩 3. Regular Session Open: Failed Breakdown → Reversal Opened in the lower third of the gap, immediately probing for a breakdown. Look‑below failure: traded a quarter‑point under ON low but still couldn’t break 7524. That failure at the key reference level triggered a reversal sequence. Regained the open → shifted control back to buyers. 🟨 4. Mid‑Session: Push Higher, But Sellers Hold Yesterday’s Low Reversal carried price back into yesterday’s low, but no acceptance above. Sellers re‑engaged, leaving the session high at 7555.25. This capped the upside and set the tone for a two‑sided, news‑driven day. 🟥 5. Structure: Neutral Day Both sides of the IB were taken out → neutral day. Reflects a market torn between AI‑driven risk appetite and Iran‑driven headline risk. 🟦 6. News Flow: Still Driving the Tape Reversals gained traction on headlines that US–Iran negotiations were stalling. Despite geopolitical volatility, AI sentiment remains the dominant underlying bid. E‑period buyers stepped in again at Thursday’s VAH, reinforcing the idea that responsive buyers remain active at key references. Narrative Summary A market at all‑time highs came into the session with a fragile island‑day structure and a geopolitical narrative that flipped twice in 24 hours. Overnight sellers tested the prior gap but failed to close it, defending 7524 and setting up a reversal off the open. The session turned into a neutral day, with buyers and sellers both taking swings but neither gaining control. AI sentiment continues to underpin the bid, while Iran headlines remain the trigger for sharp intraday rotations.

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@Trading_Balance @financialjuice @LiveSquawk Good tools won’t make you profitable, but they definitely make the job easier 💰

You don’t have to be a news trader to understand that a single headline can flip a market 📉📈. Pure technical trading only works as long as the macro backdrop stays broadly stable 🌍. When the market reprices, adapting to that shift is a key skill IMO 🔄.

Most people who look at #GEX have no idea what they're looking at or indeed how they can make money out of it. Looks cool though. Positive and negative gamma also sounds cool too . The only time I ever actually pay attention to these things are the middle and the end of the month. Lots of people peddling these tools. @Broda1995 Point us all in the right direction please

@era_futs It's definitely on steroids. More to come.

@Trading_Balance For sure, looks like Sierra on steroids

Another choppy open. The key INFO for me is the hold and push back above yesterday’s highs- buyers in control after initial profit taking. We cleared the overnight high, so I’m leaning bullish, but whippy rotations aren’t giving much conviction yet. With the open outside prior range, the setup was watching the retest of yesterday’s upper‑tail area, now acting as support exactly where it should. #ES_F Not trading drinking coffee and waiting for more headlines!

@era_futs Don't you recognize my charts?

@Trading_Balance This doesn’t look like Sierra, what platform?

@era_futs Don't you recognize my charts anymore? :)

I ended up going for for the Touch Pro. Best coffee I have ever had at home. Thanks for all your help guys!

Can anyone recommend a bean to cup coffee machine? Moving to a new office and would like to get something that's not an Nespresso machine. Cheers! I'm thinking a Breville/Sage SES882

On the news release though a good macro trader will cut, reverse.and take the correct position and max their take on a change in the macro environment.

Initially another choppy, rotational session. Spent most of B period short, hunting for the reversal. Reminder: don’t go chasing bees in this environment, nothing trends cleanly. Then we get headlines about a US–Iran truce via Saudi Arabia. When heavy news flow hits, your setup doesn’t matter. You cut, reassess, and sometimes reverse. The real edge is knowing what the news is and how important it is,and that only comes from months of following the flow, learning the context, and understanding the narrative. #ES_F Just remember you can trade inside balance. You have 20-30 point rotations, You don't always need to catch a trend!

Thanks PD. All change on the charting front new charts, new tricks. Always here if anyone's got a question. Not long now until all is revealed. Big change coming And I'll be sticking to my promises that I've kept, even though they're a little bit delayed. Release of all my @SierraChart templates. Free daily levels delivered direct to chart.

@Trading_Balance Nice to see you start posting again... I see ur FP has had some color changes... nice... Thanks for the post

Very clean B‑period reversal. As the saying goes: don’t go chasing Bees — you’ll only get stung. The final red bubble shows sellers getting trapped, and the reversal that followed was pure panic: large buy orders scrambling to get out. #ES_F

@MariusicaN Another little tip is markets with true conviction don't stop at a key reference level on the dot. In the case of yesterday, it was the prior settlement.

Great question. Context > everything. But the truth is, you never really know. you can take the trade. Based on the evidence in front of you and only hope and monitor progression/change. A PERIOD opens just inside prior value → early pop higher gets rejected → sellers push to prior settlement… and stall. No follow‑through. Big clue. clue. At that point, you need to prick up and watch the flow and that footprint was quite telling, don't you think? You can see the big SELL clashes on the footprint, an then panic above. Then B takes out the prior day’s high. C breaks above B. At that point you know: either we chop (balance) , or sellers are cooked after failing to drive below settlement. #ES_F #marketprofile

@M00NW0LVES Interesting everyone's gone for a Sage/Breville. This one's a little out of my budget. Where are you going to invite me around for coffee?

@Trading_Balance just got the oracle self tamp def not nessesary but is very nice

@ross_w__ That's the second person recommending one of those. Good value too. Remember, we're value traders~:)

@Trading_Balance I have had a breville barista express for years now. It's great for our needs